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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Anybody who read
my comments on former First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and present President Donald Trump knows I have deep
reservations about both.

I struggled long
and hard on my way into the voting booth in Garden Prairie, Illinois back on
November 8.

I don't like what
I know about Hillary and don't like what I don't know about Donald.

In short, no
one has been able to convince me that Hillary is not a criminal and
Donald is not a roll of the dice.

Always
disinclined to Fletcherian situation ethics, I found myself leaning one way
over the other as the lesser of two evils; which really unsettled me in that
I've always assumed the lesser of two evils is still evil and...

The deciding
factor for me was I could never and will never and didn't vote for someone who
advocates and enables partial birth abortion.

While I don't
consider myself to be a one-issue kinda guy, I've been to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
many times, the memorialized sites of former concentration camps in Germany
while studying in Heidelberg back in the early 70s, and...have come to conclude
that people who advocate and enable partial birth abortion make Nazis look like
Brownies.

Of course, there
are people who don't know what partial birth abortion is; and when I explain it
to them, they cannot and often won't believe it is practiced in America apart
from criminal prosecution as a legal way to end...a life. They cannot and
often won't believe that such a barbaric procedure is permitted in the United
States of America; and when I told 'em before November 8 that one of the
candidates supposedly dedicated to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness" is an advocate and enabler of partial birth abortion, they
could not and often would not believe me.

So, yes, there
are people who voted for the advocate and enabler because they just didn't know
the truth about that candidate; which is why I've concluded people who would
vote for someone who advocates and enables such horror are ignorant, deceived,
defiant, apathetic, or co-conspiratorial with...satanos.

I guess this is
kinda related to the last edition ("Dearly Beloved").

People,
especially pastors, who claim to be "Christian" pastors
yet undermine the exclusive claim including the inclusive invitation of
Jesus as Lord and Savior in John 14 as representative of Christology consistent
with over 2K years of Biblical, confessional, constitutional, historical,
traditional, and common sense Christianity can hardly be classified as
"Christian" pastors unless over 2K years of...is
reimagined, denied, disregarded, debunked, and deserted.

I would add
anyone who advocates and enables partial birth abortion and claims to be a
"Christian" is reimagining, denying, disregarding, debunking, and
deserting the existential ethics of Jesus so quickly assayed by getting a
Bible with red letters and reading 'em.

Yeah, the 1st
Amendment is still around; so people can say whatever the hell/heaven they
wanna say.

People are free
to say they're "Christians" if they wanna say it.

Nobody can/will
stop 'em.

Lots of folks in
mainline denominations and emergent churches and sideline sects and cults are going
around calling themselves "Christians" even though any connection
between 'em and what was formerly considered Christianity according to over 2K
years of...is only coincidental.

Maybe I'm making
too much of the issue(s); and if I'm wrong and you can point out my error by
Jesus, Holy Scripture, and common sense, I'll confess, pray and try to repent,
and ask forgiveness.

But,
c'mon, Christianity used to stand for something/Someone.

Listening to too
many of today's clergy and the people that they've made twice as fit for...can
be so confusing.

They make it seem
as if Jesus can be whoever you want Him to be and Christianity is whatever you
wanna think it is.

Have you ever
wondered what the Founder not the latest version would say about all of this?

Hint.

Matthew 7:21-23.

While you're at
it, read that again after reading the eight preceding verses.

There's more to
claiming to be a Christian than claiming to be a Christian...in the end.

Monday, January 23, 2017

Because I have
loved the PCUSA and its predecessors and sister mainline franchises so much in
their previous incarnations as introducing me to Jesus, nurturing my faith in
Jesus, and enabling my undershepherding
call for Jesus, I have prayed and labored for their return to Him as esteemed
in over 2K years of Biblical, confessional, constitutional, historical,
traditional, and common sense Christianity.

I weep in prayer
almost every day over what has become of them.

Previously, in a
book that few bought and runs behind the toothy Texan by almost a trillion to
one to force humility (Fifteen
Secrets), I have said the problems include unconverted clergy,
unconvinced laity, and pharisaical reincarnations substituting organizational
order for Biblical authority.

I threw that out
back in 2004.

Today, I think
the problems also include glorified social workers masquerading as pastors who
like some of the
personal and social ethics of Jesus while having the arrogance to ignore even
challenge and condemn most
of the personal and social ethics of Jesus and have excluded the
eternal that they don't believe for the existential that they kinda like.

Truth is too many
of today's clergy, especially in mainline denominations, never understood what
it means to believe Jesus is Lord and Savior by the book, never really believed
what they pledged at ordination and lied to get a job that's glorified social
work, or changed their minds sometime after ordination and don't have the
integrity to quit because they're in denominations with unconverted clergy,
unconvinced laity, and pharisaical reincarnations enabling their hypocrisy.

I may be wrong on
that; and if shown my error by Jesus, Holy Scripture, and common sense, I will
confess my sin, pray and try to repent, and ask forgiveness.

Friday, January 20, 2017

Back in February 1977 when I
was making the circuit of neutral pulpits aka ecclesiastical meat markets to
hawk my wares, land a job, and prove the previous seven years of college and
seminary were worth it, I preached in a franchise church in Oil City,
Pennsylvania.

Because Dr. Macleod taught us in every
homiletics class that it’s not only not rude to be on time but we should always
arrive at least an hour before worship so that we’re prayed up, calmed, and
ready to go, I got to town about two hours before my advertising and their
inspecting and had breakfast in a local diner.

That’s where I came across a cartoon
that I’ve kept ever since that reminds me not to be a speck-inspector when I’m
log-impaired.

Specifically, it has a bald pastor
introducing prayer from a pulpit, “And at this time our hearts go out to all
those pure and perfect newsmen who search for sin in others.”

As I’ve watched President Trump joust
with media who are so quick to highlight the lowlights of whatever dirt can be
dig up about him, I’ve often wondered about them; recalling another
warning from Jesus about the mercy to be received will be determined by the
mercy extended.

I also remember Sproul, a theologian
who lived not too far from Oil City, who often said, “Pray for mercy! Don’t pray for justice or you may get it!”

Or as my home pastor the Rev. Harold
F. Mante often reminded me, “There’s two ways of looking at grace – getting
what you don’t deserve and not getting what you deserve.”

Besides, I’ve also learned over the
years that lots of people who are busy pointing out the sins in others are
usually hiding some juicy ones of their own in the Lombardi strategy of the
best defense being a good offense; or lighting fires in somebody’s else’s
backyard keeps people from seeing your house is burning down.

Simply, I don’t think our President’s
past, present, and future will be judged by the only Judge who counts as
that much better or that much worse than ours.

So it hasn’t bothered me at all when
the President doesn’t take questions from people who are always looking for the
bad in him; or as I tell young pastors, “You must love everybody; but you don’t
have to smoke cigars with ‘em.”

Frankly, there’s more and more and
more fake news out there being generated by people who don’t tell the truth
about anyone or anything.

People in churches and most
organizations know how that goes.

If you can’t win or get your way by
telling the truth or persuading others to your version of the truth, you make
up stuff to win or get your way.

Really, there are people in our world
and too often worldly church who don’t really care about those rules in
Exodus 20 and throughout God-breathed revelation; for they say, in effect, “I
know that’s what Jesus and the Bible say, but I think…”

How do you think our church as well as
nation and world got into such a mess?

Sooner or later and definitely in the
end, God does not bless those who dishonor Him as personified in Jesus and
prescribed in the Bible.

Yeah, I find myself laughing every now
and then that Trump is the 45th; though the last two or three or
four or…have proven anyone can grow up/down/around to become President
of the United States of America.

Yet, I’m among those Americans who
believe it’s important to respect the office and trust whoever gets into the
Oval Office until they prove they can’t be trusted.

Moretheless, Christians are
Acts 5:29 kinda citizens.

Unfortunately, our media has been more
about inventing news or managing news or ideologically filtering news than
reporting it in recent years. O.K.,
maybe they’ve always done that; but, eschatologically, it seems to be happening
with greater intensity and frequency as of late.

I’ll never forget talking with the
editor of what she thought was a major newspaper about fifteen years ago. I asked why I hadn’t seen anything about the
Confessing Church Movement in the paper; noting it was a very popular movement
in our denomination to bring Jesus, Bible, and holiness back into the
mainline. She said, “As you know, I’m an
elder at ___ and I’m against the Confessing Church Movement. That’s why I’ve not run stories about
it.” I said, “I thought your job was to
report news instead of deciding what news is good for us.” Come to think of it, we never talked again.

I guess it all comes down to this.

President Trump will be judged -
eternally by God and existentially by everybody else – by his trustworthiness.

Media will be judged in the same way.

You decide who’s ahead right now.

While I join you in doing that, we may
want to take a long look in the mirror.

One of the lessons that I learned from
Victorious Ministry Through Christ is to dump your garbage before someone digs
it up.

That means it’s better to confess
before getting caught.

People who confess first are usually
forgiven quicker.

People who are caught are never really
trusted again.

Just ask…

Of course, VMTC got it from the big
ten and Jesus who inspired the wisdom, “Tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth.”

I like how Jesus put it: “Simply let
your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’”

He went on to say, “Anything more
doesn’t come from God!”

“Your word,” He said, “is enough. To strengthen your promise with a vow shows
that something is wrong.”

Christians are honest to God; and part
of being honest to God is being honest with others.

Read Matthew 25 again.

When people spend too much time
spinning or rationalizing or making excuses and blaming society, poor potty
training, and that Hillary lost and Donald won or something or somebody else
for their bad behaviors, everybody, especially God, knows they’re lying and
nobody trusts liars.

I think of Dr. McCord who often said,
“You must always tell the truth and never lie because lies always catch up with
you and truth honors God and never changes.
You don’t have to tell anyone everything that you know; but never
lie. You can say it’s none of their
business. You can say you may talk about
it later. You can say you’ll pray and
think about it and get back to them. But
never, ever, lie because it doesn’t honor God and only the truth liberates.’

It’s the truth about the truth.

Truth never changes.

If you tell the truth, no one has to
guess or gossip or continue to distrust.

Time will tell with President Trump.

Time has already told with too much of
today’s media.

I’m reminded of a doubles tennis
tournament many years ago in Kansas City.

During the first few rounds, we played
by the honors system.

Well, I hit an ace right down the middle
and on the line.

Immediately, one of our opponents
yelled, “Out!”

“Out?” I shouted incredulously and
began to rush the net.

My partner stopped me and said, “God
knows!”

It’s the truth.

My spirit calmed.

It’s the only thing that matters in
the end.

God knows.

He’s the only One who matters in
the end.

He’ll be the Judge that matters most
for President Trump, media, you and me in the end.

Friday, January 13, 2017

It's the elephant in the room - uh,
I mean on the court or field or diamond - whenever a public school plays a
parochial school for NIC-10 seedings, titles, regards, recognitions, rewards,
and all of the rest.

Indisputably, nobody wants to talk
about it, parochial schools deny it, educators ignore it, and the IHSA
rationalizes it as public school players, coaches, parents, and fans grin and
bear it while their counterparts pretend their competitive excellence is
not fueled by the use of Performance
Enhancing
Demographics.

Simply, parochial schools competing
in athletic conferences with public schools don't play by the same rules.

They are not bound by geographical
districting and everybody knows they cherry-pick, recruit, enable, and
celebrate PEDs.

They don't play by the same rules of
eligibility.

It makes Russian hacking look
sophomoric.

People who deny this reality think
Michelle Obama and Donald Trump will divorce their spouses so I can preside at
their nuptial on January 21.

Now before those who want to pretend
there's no elephant in the room burn up cyberspace with their letters to the
editor to deny and rationalize their use of PEDs to move to the head of their
classes, anyone who has ever read anything from me in the past - Not many! -
knows I am an outspoken advocate for schools like Boylan who are dedicated
to academic, spiritual, and athletic excellence; or as they say, "striving
to be saints, scholars, and champions."

Praise God!

While public education has been the
backbone of America in leveling the academic, athletic, vocational, and
socioeconomic playing fields regardless of color, class, or culture, parochial
education respects decisions to provide educational, social, spiritual, and
athletic opportunities not tainted by the increasing insistence among public
educators to distance themselves and those entrusted to them from
America's spiritual roots.

Whenever I go to Boylan, I am
overwhelmed and humbled by the civility of their fans, unashamed Christian
confessionalism, and exercise of their constitutional right for collective
prayer before every contest; begging the question why they can and public
schools can't if they're in the same conferences playing for the same kudos.

Every once in a while, a public
school will push the Titans out of the athletic spotlight; but that happens
only slightly more frequently than the possibility of the aforementioned
nuptial.

So it may be worth considering
giving the trophies to Boylan and the other school in town vying to match their
prowess before seasons begin; and then acknowledge the real champions who play
by the same rules without the indisputable advantage of PEDs.

Now that that's not out of my
system, Thursday's 50-33 Boylan win over the Bucs seemed more like a football
game than night at the hoops; especially when checking the scoreboard.
15-3 Boylan at the end of the 1st. 21-6 Boylan at half. 33-15
Boylan going into the 4th. And that's not to mention the
laudably feisty play of Boylan captain and Air Force Academy recruit Zach
Couper and Bucs captain and first-team-all-state QB Austin Revolinski who've
been mixing it up against each other on the court and field most remarkably
throughout their careers.

With their PEDs and daunting height
advantage, the Bucs never posed a threat to their visitors.

While Couper played as solidly
dominating as ever in every aspect of the game (8 points as the court
general), his usual offensive display wasn't needed in a balanced scoring
attack led by 6'6" senior Ronan Jansen who led all scorers with 14
points.

Senior Nate Horton led the Bucs with
9 points.

After four games (TBA) at
Jefferson's Martin Luther King, Jr. Shootout on January 14-16, Belvidere
returns to conference action when they host Auburn on January 20 at 7:00 p.m.

Having been
around the horn a lot during my tenure in whatever it is that I do, I’ll
confess my least favorite time of the year is from the first Sunday after
Thanksgiving until the first Monday after Easter; and if you don’t know what
I’m talking about, it means you’re not one of the reasons why those seasons
aren’t the brightest pour moi.

Let’s just say euphemistically that
there’s too much drama around those times of year; and because I take my call
more seriously than some others in the business, especially the John 14 part,
my cup overflows around then.

So I wasn’t thrilled to hear that no
one signed up for the devotional for our first officers’ meeting of the year.

Besides, nobody really pays too much
attention to what I say or write or I’d really enjoy Christmas and Easter a lot
more; and, moretheless, I like to listen to what God is saying through
others and really like those devotionals that I’m not leading at meetings of
officers, clergy, and others.

Anyway, here’s my devotional text: “If
you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from
His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one
in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of
selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than
yourselves…Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus” (see
Philippians 2).

There’s a lot in there; yet I think –
and I may be wrong – the big thing that God is trying to impress upon people
who say they’re praying and trying to love Jesus by loving like Jesus is that
Christians, a word or description or profession not to be taken lightly or
thrown on those who really don’t get it/Him, are supposed to model Someone
better.

Jesus.

Again, there’s a lot in there and you
can wrap yourself around it in a Psalm 1 kinda way if you’re up for it; but
some things came to my mind about modeling Someone better as I read that
text…and they’re - I think yet may be wrong - especially true for people who do
what I do or accept other offices in the church or say they’re followers of
Jesus.

1. Nobody but God knows everything;
which means it’s better to admit it rather than act like a
holier-than-thou/Thou-know-it-all and stay teachable.

2.
If you’ve got to pant and pout to make a point, you’re probably wrong. Some nuns taught this to me: “If you’re
right, you don’t have to argue. If
you’re wrong, you can’t afford to argue.”
People who like to argue or argue a lot betray their lack of
confidence in what they’re arguing about.
If you don’t want people to pick-up-their-marbles-and-run-away-when-they-don’t-get-their-my-way-or-the-highway,
then you better model Someone different for them.

3. It’s wise to begin campaigns by
saying, “I may be wrong but here’s what I think…” You may be wrong! Sorry to burst the bubble! It’s taken a long time but I try to say this
when making a point, “I may be wrong but here’s what I think; and if you can
show me how I’m wrong by Jesus, the Bible, and common sense, I will confess my
error, pray and try to repent, and ask your forgiveness.”

5. Jerry Kirk taught this lesson to
me: “I don’t expect anything from people who don’t love Jesus; but I expect
people who say they love Jesus to pray and work to prove it.” Let me put it another way. Believers expect nothing from posers. Believers only expect more than less fidelity
from authentics.

6. Shepherds don’t follow sheep. If you want the sheep to do something, lead
the way! Also, remember you’re not an
officer or clergywoman/man to represent the opinions of people when you
meet. You’re called and ordained to
honor God as God has revealed Himself in Jesus by the book.

7. Picking up on that last one, don’t
expect people to worship regularly, attend Sunday School, send children to
Midweek and VBS and youth group and Confirmation Class, tithe, volunteer,
forgive, reconcile, show up for stuff, and not act so miserably and cranky and
contentious if you’re not modeling Someone better. It’s worth
repeating. Don’t expect people to model Someone
better if you’re not!

Finally, to drop a name, Lloyd
Ogilvie, former pastor in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Hollywood before becoming
Chaplain of the United States of America Senate, told me how he cooperated with
our Lord in the transforming of church officers and clergy into modeling
Someone better.

He began each meeting around the
sacrament of Holy Communion.

He discouraged people from opening
their mouths at meetings if they had not been to worship and experienced the
sacrament before meetings; recalling Dr. Macleod who often said
something in seminary that I’m only beginning to grasp, “We get Jesus better
during Holy Communion.”

Lloyd said it’s hard for people to be
jerks during meetings and anywhere else if they begin at the table with Jesus
and each other and focus on Him so they can filter everything in their meetings
and lives through Him for Him.

I was going
to say what I’ve always said at these times - that I’ve been a Kopp all of my
life - but nobody ever laughs; and I realize some folks just want me to get on
with it and say a quick prayer so everybody can get going.

Please
don’t think that I’m singling you out; because that’s how most folks feel when
I preach on Sundays.

Well, I
won’t take too long because I’ve also got things to do; but this is a special
day for Cameron and we should savor it with him as we are reminded of our
fraternity dedicated to the health and welfare of Belvidere and Boone County
America and the special qualities required for our ministries of law
enforcement and crime prevention.

Today, I
want to encourage Cameron and remind the rest of us about the emotional,
intellectual, and spiritual balance required of “shepherds” like us who are charged
by God through our oaths of office to protect citizens from the wolves ready to
ravage them.

Jesus
explained the balance like this, “You are called to protect sheep from wolves;
so be as wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove.”

To be “as
wise as a serpent” is to recognize there are predators in our world and
dedicate ourselves to prayer, training, vigilance, and teamwork to protect
people from them.

To be “as
gentle as a dove” is to remember there are many more good people than bad
people in our world and that the overwhelming majority of them are praying and
rooting for us with thanks to God.

I like how
Martin Luther King, Jr. explained this balance: “We must combine the toughness
of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”

He went on,
“The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of
softmindedness…[but]…Toughmindedness without tenderheartedness is cold and
detached…Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the
serpent and the tenderness of the dove.
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be
passionless, mean, and selfish. To have
dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and
aimless.”

Jesus says
we must join Cameron and all of our sisters and brothers in law enforcement and
crime prevention in being tough and tender; for one without the other makes us
imbalanced.

If you are
one without the other, you are an imbalanced Kopp/cop with a K or C.

Remember,
there are wolves out there.

Our job is
to protect people from them and put them out of business.

Remember,
there are sheep out there who are praying and rooting for us to succeed/fulfill
our call to law enforcement and crime prevention.

Be tough.

Be tender.

Be
balanced…and you’ll always tip the scales of justice for righteousness’ sake.

Let us
pray.

Thank You,
God, for the privilege of law enforcement and crime prevention as a sacred
calling to honor You by protecting the health and welfare of citizens entrusted
to our care. As we thank You for Cameron
and his particular call to this shared ministry and pray every encouragement
for him, bless his partnership with our Mayor and Council, municipal employees,
firefighters, police, Fire Chief, Police Chief, Sheriff, State’s Attorney,
Judges, public servants, and citizenry dedicated to life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness as endowed by our Creator, guided by Holy Scripture, and
ultimately redeemed by grace through faith in Jesus as we pray in His name. Amen.

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Let's resolve to
live our lives in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at our funerals.

I think of two
notoriously naughty brothers.

You know the
kind.

They transfer
their pejorative pathologies to everyone because misery
loves/embraces/enables...

Well, one of 'em
died and the survivor went to the preacher, "I am very wealthy. If
you agree to preside at my brother's funeral and say he was a saint, I will
underwrite your church's budget for a decade."

The preacher, notorious
as well for telling the truth no matter who/what/where/when, agreed and opened
the funeral with this prayer: "Lord, he was an evil man. He abused
his family. He was selfish. He did not share any of the wealth
entrusted to him by You. He did nothing good. He was an evil man;
but compared to his brother, he was a saint."

Back to
resolutions, Twain quipped, "Now is the accepted time to make your regular
annual resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as
usual."

Or as my daddy
had to remind me on too many occasions, "The road to hell is paved with
good intentions."

Be that as it is in a Pauline kinda
way - and if you don't know what that means, read Romans 7 - I
think resolutions, with all apologies to Jesus in Matthew 5:37 which the
fundamentalists in town get while I'm still trying to figure it/Him out, are
the only, uh, Christian thing
to do for women and men of faith who want to get, uh, better in their, uh,
discipleship.

But before
I record my resolutions for 2017 so relatives and family on the
corner of Lincoln and Main can hold me accountable in a
why-don't-you-practice-what-you-preach kinda way, I recalled some resolutions
from the past from folks who inspire mine.

Tony Evans:
"Let me make this bold statement to every local church. The fuller
of the Spirit you are, the fewer 'programs' you need. Because no program
on earth can match the filling from heaven. Counseling would be cut short
if more people who are being counseled were instead being filled."

Rhonda Hughey:
"If we aren't longing for Jesus, our ministry activities will be routine
and hollow. There is certainly no shortage of ideas, plans, methods,
books, teachings, programs, and activities in the church. What we are
suffering from is a drought of desperation for God! Desperation is the
underlying fuel that ignites our hearts for unity, prayer, worship, and
repentance."

Chuck Legvold:
"I'm going to learn to care less about what the 'saved' think and more
about what the 'lost' need."

Gary Beets:
"If we meet and you forget me, you've missed nothing. But if you
meet Jesus and forget Him, you've lost everything."

Chuck Colson:
"Don't follow me! Follow Jesus!"

Specifically,
pour moi, in 2017 to spark/provoke/compel some from you for Christ's sake:

1. I'm going to
read fewer books about the Bible and spend most of my study/devotional time
reading the Bible.

2. Because I'm
going to live around here for the rest of my life and stay on the corner of
Lincoln and Main until assassinated by an Islamofascistnutball savage or that
girl/guy who's still mad at me for taking the church away from her/him and
giving it back to Jesus or Grandpa Jacob's cancer genes kick in, I'm going to
stop complaining about the pizza being awful compared to the slices of
Northeastern Pennsylvania.

3. I'm going to
retreat into the privacy of my own mind and revel in pony rides when sitting
with an irascible, irregular, or irreconcilable and remember as I wrote in a
book nobody bought, "Trying to be rational with the irrational is
illogical."

4. With #3 as
context, I'm not going to talk/write/weep or waste another minute on the
PCUSA that is increasingly apostate under current management and spend my time
praying/sowing for its return to Jesus by the book which means I will serve as
called, not conspire with schismatics in renewed obedience to John 17, and
network with anyone anywhere at anytime who convinces me that she/he/they
really want to honor and follow Jesus by the book. In other words, when
in cultures hostile to Jesus like most mainliners and sideliners with their
peculiarly and selfishly navel-gazing idolatries only coincidental to
Christianity as incarnated in Jesus and prescribed in Holy Scripture, I will
shut up when tempted to condemnation in obedience to John 3:17 while
praying/trying to salt, shine, and leavenate.